Build Your Own Text Editor

Re:Build Your Own Text Editor by mekanicalsyncop on Sunday August 04, 2019 @04:24PM (#20609015)

Are there any good ones that exist? I'm a security analyst and I frequently work with large text files, 200MB-1GB and the text editors I've tried are incredibly slow.

A lot of the time I can use grep and other command-line tools to find what I need, but given the nature of the job I don't always know what I'm looking for so having the raw file open in a text editor is sometimes the only way.

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Re:Build Your Own Text Editor by cjohansson on Sunday August 04, 2019 @11:57PM (#20611167)

I’d recommend xi-editor, vi/vim/neovim or emacs for that

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Re:Build Your Own Text Editor by jhallenworld on Monday August 05, 2019 @09:49AM (#20614160)

Try JOE, it can handle files this large no problem.

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Re:Build Your Own Text Editor by proverbialbunny on Sunday August 04, 2019 @10:04PM (#20610472)

The person from the talk may have a github repo with the text editor he wrote shown in the talk.

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Re:Build Your Own Text Editor by diegoperini on Monday August 05, 2019 @06:54AM (#20613000)

As an ultimate noob of this area of expertise, can I ask if Sublime Text works? If not, why?

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Re:Build Your Own Text Editor by diegoperini on Monday August 05, 2019 @12:50PM (#20615662)

I'm the noob, not the parent. No sarcasm intended.

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Re:Build Your Own Text Editor by BubRoss on Monday August 05, 2019 @12:05PM (#20615206)

Gvim can open files of 2GB or more and search through them without any problem.

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